The season for hiking, riding bikes and horses is finally here! Your local parks and trails need YOUR help in identifying trail maintenance projects. The free ParkWatchReport mobile app and websites are an instantaneous way to bring a problem, concern or comment to the attention of public land management. Park and land managers are, in turn, mobilizing their teams of volunteers and maintenance crews to address fallen trees, washed out trails, and obstacles of all kinds impede safe access our public trails.

The next time you head down your favorite trail be sure you have ParkWatchReport downloaded on your smart phone. Open your park's page to find maps and check for alerts. Then, if you spot something significant, File a Report. Your Report goes directly to that specific park's management for action.

The Bureau of Land Management’s Pine Hill Preserve, located in the Cameron Park area, El Dorado County, will offer three guided-plant tours and a bird tour in April/May in different areas of the preserve. The tours, led by volunteer naturalists, are free and open to the public.There is a limit of 25 participants per plant tour and 20 participants for the bird tour. Each plant tour will focus on the diverse and rare plants growing within the chaparral and oak woodland ecosystems. The tours will include information about wildlife, pollinators and geology. Sturdy shoes, a hat, water, a lunch or snacks, sunscreen and insect repellent are recommended.The guided-plant tours will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m, and the bird tour will take place from 7 a.m. to noon on the following dates and locations:

A retired Ranger decided to post all the maps he could find for national parks, all on one website. For those who love to go to Pt. Reyes in the hot summertime, these maps are a treasure. There are entire park maps, campsite maps, trails maps, all maps.

If you want to access this maps webpage link, along with hundreds of pages of our trails information, it is listed along with all the others under the LINKS tab above in tne menu bar, and in the drop down menu, click on Federal, State, County Parks & Trails.